"Jean-Luc, 94% on Rotten Tomatoes!"
"No!"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
"They destroy Vulcan, and we fall back."
"They annihilate entire timelines, and we fall back."
"Not this time. The line must be drawn HE-YAH! This FAH, no FAHTHA!"
"Nice speech. No way Orci and Kurtzmann could write that."
Ah, now this is how you make a TREK movie. Action packed and exciting, yet with a strong character drama core and a well developed, intelligent plot. Full of great tidbits for longtime fans -- yet entirely open and understandable to franchise newcomers. Fully embraces and dramatizes Roddenberry's vision -- yet takes a more realistic look at it by making the author of that vision a drunken cynic. FIRST CONTACT is simply a great Star Trek movie, and an example that modern TREK films should really look to. Well directed, well performed, well written, great score, the movie fires on all cylinders. Perhaps its only flaw is that the cuts between the A-B-C plot structure sometimes feel rushed, but then that's also one of the film's strengths: it's lean, it doesn't waste its time getting anywhere; yet clarity and plausibility in the plotline are also maintained. You taking notes, Orci/Kurtzmann?
Standout performances from the TNG cast. Stewart of course rocks the movie, but Spiner is great also, and unlike most of the TNG movies all the crew members get their own moments and things to do. Heck, Deanna is actually all right in this one!
Yeah. FC gets a perfect score. Which surprises even me, since that bumps it above TUC -- which is probably still my fav Trek movie due to a TOS crew bias, but admittedly has flaws.
10/10
1. STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT
2. STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY
3. STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN
4. STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME
5. STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE
6. STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK
7. STAR TREK GENERATIONS
8. STAR TREK V: THE FINAL FRONTIER
9. STAR TREK
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